You can almost imagine some skinny guy standing in front of large crowd. The crowd yells, "Let XP live!" The skinny guy fidgets, and responds, "Um, we need more feedback." Yes, this is Microsoft PR at its best, folks.
A Look at Visitor Stats for Microsoft and Yahoo
Hitwise has a look at the visitor statistics for Yahoo and Microsoft’s websites, showing just how much market share in the United States the combined company would have. Total market share for all Yahoo is 13.2% of all of U.S. internet traffic, with MSN having just 2.4% and Google 7.7% Combined, they would have 15.6%, over twice as much as Google.
Microsoft’s Offer To Yahoo Falling
In all of the Microsoft-Yahoo talk so far, no official deadlines have been given. There may be an implicit hurry-up factor, however, as it seems that Microsoft’s sinking stock price could force it to adjust the deal.
Microsoft Playing Pepsi To Google’s Coke
If Microsoft can pull off its Yahoo proposal and manage to get ad systems integrated across properties for both sites, they could be a desirable part of search marketing campaigns that begin and end with Google these days.
Yahoo and Microsoft Overlap
Do you really have any idea how big Yahoo is, or hell, how big MSN is? There’s a lot of overlap between the two, and Long Zheng & Josh Philips have been kind enough to generate a nice chart to show the two. The chart is reproduced below, with some notes added by me regarding what I think about which service will be rolled into the other.
Microsoft Canada Slapped Over Copyright Op-Ed
Noted Internet law expert Michael Geist criticized an opinion piece appearing in a Canadian newspaper as “astonishingly misleading and factually incorrect.”
Microsoft May Need to Borrow Some Cash
If history is taken into account then Microsoft has been known to have a huge reservoir of funds which prevent it from loaning for any deal, but this time it appears that the bid of US $44.6 Billion has forced it to consider such an option. This was made known by the company’s CFO Chris Liddell in a briefing to Wall Street analysts.
Could Google Stand in the Way of the Microsoft-Yahoo Deal?
Over the weekend Google tried to thwart the attempt by Microsoft to takeover Yahoo!, by being quite vocal about the concerns, see Official Google Response: Microsoft’s Bid On Yahoo! "Hostile".
Microsoft Could Be Better for Flickr
Boing Boing is out with a post this morning, "Some Flickr users wary of a MSFT takeover."
Microsoft: We Love the Yahoo Brand
Microsoft, in its conference call Friday regarding the Yahoo offer, said that “We love the Yahoo brand”, when asked about what would happen to MSN and Windows Live.